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Love was in the air when we disembarked that afternoon at Punta Espinoza on Fernandina Island. Earlier in the day we had seen several pairs of sea turtles mating at different times. One fellow traveller remarked it was no wonder…

The day started at sunrise. By 6am most of us had assembled on the covered deck to check out the scenery. We identified turtles by their large rock-like domes emerging silently through the waves. A short time later we boarded the pangas…

After another long, rocky night of travel on the boat, we ended up on the west side of Santiago Island at a place called Puerto Egas. It was the same island where we went on our first excursion back in…

We boarded the pangas at 6:30am to reach Genovese Island, home of the elusive Red-footed Booby. This is the only island to see this particular type of booby in the entire archipelago. At the landing dock a mama fur seal…

Our first full day in the Galapagos Islands commenced with a walk across an expanse of hardened lava ~115 years old on Santiago Island’s eastern shore. Although it’s hard to imagine, this is how the islands started in this archipelago.…